Stanningley Primary School

This half term we are focusing on dance. We have enjoyed listening to the repeating patterns in the rhythm of the music. The length of the rhythm determined the length of our shapes and movement. We used all of our different moves to create a lovely sequenced dance move.

We all came to school wearing odd socks. The children had a great time sharing their odd socks. And why we chose them. We know that wearing our odd socks helped us to think about how we are all different and that it is great to be different.

Today we have been learning lots of new vocabulary such as; Transparent, Translucent and Opaque. we have grouped objects into their own properties. We a great time using the torches to investigate the material and name its properties. We were having so much fun we even had a little time to use our own bodies in the investigation. We found out that our bodies are opaque.

We had great fun completing the 7 rugby challenge in the classroom . Then Gaz set up 7 activities that we all completed 7 times during our PE session too.

In year 2 we have been investigating Everyday Materials. We have named and sorted lots of different materials. We have use a variety of vocabulary to discribe these materials. We had lots of fun going on a material hunt. We recorded our findings on a grid.

This half term class 2 are looking at paint and colour mixing. We have introduced a Canadian artist Michelle Jursa, who started painting as a child. We have investigated block paint and this week we have investigated ready mixed paint. We think ready mixed paint is much easier to use. Firstly recapped the yr 1 learning of Primary colours. We could all say, red, yellow and blue are the primary colours. We have begun to create our own colour wheel using the primary colours. We have talked about secondary and tertiary colours. We were all very focused to ensure we kept within the lines. But we did have good fun.

We have had a lovely time. We have been talking about team work and listened to the Julia Donaldson story Paper Dolls. We then used our folding and cutting skills to make our own paper dolls. We did a good job.